Ferdinand Lassalle Quotes & Sayings

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune. — Ferdinand Lassalle

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might. — Ferdinand Lassalle

But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies. — Ferdinand Lassalle

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation! — Ferdinand Lassalle

Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act. — Ferdinand Lassalle

Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon. — Ferdinand Lassalle

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture. — Ferdinand Lassalle

Only in a popular war against France ... do I see a misfortune. — Ferdinand Lassalle

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach. — Ferdinand Lassalle

Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm. — Ferdinand Lassalle